Small
(Mini) Melon Bread Cookie

Kabaya

Taste:
2

Texture:
2

Novelty:
2

All
scores out of 5

I
love melon bread. I’m generally not a fan of melon, and more
so melon flavoured things. The thing I find about melon bread is that
they don’t taste of melon at all. I don’t really know
if there is any melon in a melon bun, and if there isn’t how
they got the name. All I know is that every time I’m in Japan
(or any other place that makes good melon bread), I gorge myself on
them. Even writing about melon buns has inspired me to look up the
recipe when I’m finished writing this review and learning how
to make them myself. That way I can die a happy and very fat man.

The reason I love melon
buns is vast, the texture is soft and fluffy on the inside and just
crunchy enough on the outside. There’s a certain sweet crunchy
coating on the outside that I love. The flavour is also really great,
it’s super buttery, almost like shortbread. This last fact brings
us to the cookies we’re reviewing. That’s because these
are not just really small melon bread buns, these are cookies themed
like melon bread. The main flavour of melon bread is like shortbread,
and since these are hard cookies, they just feel like eating shortbread
cookies. The wonderful textures of melon bread are completely lost
on this treat because it’s just a hard cookie.

This would be ok if that
was all, but there’s one other feature about these cookies that
I don’t like, they kind of taste like melon. I know that sounds
like a weird complaint, but it’s not something I’m used
to dealing with when I eat melon bread. Also, as you read earlier,
I’m not a huge fan of melon flavoured anything. What should
have been a cute, but only slightly not as good cookie idea was a
bigger let down than I thought it would. It also made me wonder, why
not just make little melon bread buns? It would be both cute, and
possibly on par with the original. Making them cookies, and giving
them a stronger melon flavour (with a melon aftertaste) just doesn’t
make sense to me.